Pam Spaulding

@pamspaulding.bsky.social

Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA. PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2

1/2 NYT report reeks of leaky Pirro burying Burgum. 😂 "Ms. Pirro, her voice raised at times, directly confronted Mr. Burgum, accusing him of misleading the president. She made the case that Mr. Burgum had promoted a self-serving cover story to conceal his own missteps." 🧾 t2m.co/KkgkD10R

Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.

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Abdul El-Sayed "overcame a nearly $65M onslaught of outside money & an establishment that had rallied around Stevens. Popular Gov. Whitmer endorsed Stevens late last month — a move seen as a last-ditch effort to stop a rising El-Sayed." He will face R former Rep. Mike Rogers. 🧾 t2m.co/2FnxHEcZ

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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1/2 😳 A dietitian is advising members of the Trump cabinet on bowel hygiene. 🎁 NYT: The Most Powerful Men in America Are Eating Only Steak & Sauerkraut. t2m.co/ircCPeEq ⚠️ Sorry, Sean O’Mara, wiping your ass is fundamental. As legendary wiseman Redd Foxx said in 1975, "You Gotta Wash Your Ass." 😂

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

"The poor condition of the pool was 'plainly visible' for weeks & was publicly documented through photos, video & news reports." — Hearn attys Mary Dohrmann, Steve Levin & Norman Eisen A spokesperson for 🍷Pirro’s🍷 office did not immediately return a message seeking comment. 🧾 t2m.co/coFLam5o

Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.

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Looks like human garbage Rep. Max Miller can barely contain himself from spilling the tea about his ex-father-in-law, Bernie Moreno's cruising activities w/men. 📺 t2m.co/d6xj37Ao 🧾 Is Rep. Max Miller threatening to out Sen. Bernie Moreno for having sex with men? www.signorile.com/p/is-rep-max...

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

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Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 18h ago

just going to re-up last week's post from @msignorile.bsky.social: Is Rep. Max Miller threatening to out Sen. Bernie Moreno for having sex with men? www.signorile.com/p/is-rep-max...

👀 New policy (t2m.co/Z834BKzO) ends option for anonymous reports of discrimination or discriminatory harassment. Instead they can make “confidential” reports to withhold their identity. #DUIHireHegseth deemed the old system was “weaponized against superiors.” 🙄 🧾 taskandpurpose.com/news/army-ha...

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints

Soldiers can no longer make anonymous reports of discrimination, and commanders can more easily dismiss complaints they disagree with.

taskandpurpose.com

‼️😲 @wired.com: a medevac plane crashed into a mountain in NM — no survivors. What happened? "US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—& anyone else within 100s of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems." 🧾 t2m.co/VhQSoAjL 📺 t2m.co/B4y3Mzox

Jeff Wise
The Big Story
Jul 30, 2026 6:00 AM
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/The accident marked the first time that GPS jamming had contributed to the crash of a civilian plane in the United States. But it was just one of a string of recent disruptions across the world. The skies are more contested than ever, whether it’s civilian drones wandering out of the approved zone or US agencies getting their signals crossed, as happened earlier this year when New Mexico and Texas scared the public by temporarily closing their airspace. (It turned out that US Customs and Border Patrol were using anti-drone lasers in that area.) The GPS jamming exercise that led to this latest crash is not a singular event. In the past year, the US military appeared to have sent out notices for at least 10 such exercises. “As drone warfare and electronic warfare expand, airlines are increasingly encountering navigation disruptions hundreds of miles beyond the actual conflict zone,” says Eliran Almog, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Cyviation.
KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘@kojamf.bsky.social · 19h ago

"accidentally" my fucking ass, pure incompetence, how many more of us are going to die? Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social "The U.S. military accidentally killed everyone on a civilian medevac plane."

When insufferable @sshole Scott Bessent goes on camera, you must assume lies will spill out one after another. Iran's not talking to the Trump clowns. 👉 We know deep down, ego-bruised loser Trump is impatient & wants to go bloodthirsty eliminationist. 💣 Q: Will anyone stop him? 📺 t2m.co/eqqXAJ6s

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "We've seen President Trump last week threaten what would have been the largest military campaign since World War 2 against the Iranians, and now because of that we are in talks with the Iranians. I think there's a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait."

1/2 ❗ Trump is setting more taxpayer 💰 on 🔥 with his rushed helipad project. "He directed contractors to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad, frustrated with its appearance and questioning whether the slope of the White House lawn needs to be changed." 🎁 Link: wapo.st/4fYGqQW

Trump orders changes to new helipad after weeks of around-the-clock work

Contractors have removed the granite seal that had begun to take shape in recent days, after the president complained about the slope of the White House Lawn.

wapo.st

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Sen. Durbin: Under Blanche's leadership, over 1,000 FBI personnel were pulled off law enforcement priorities and directed to flag Epstein records for any mention of Trump. Blanche participated in secret meetings in the White House Situation Room to strategize about protecting Trump, not survivors.

Durbin: "Mr Blanche has aided and abetted the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States ... Blanche's willingness to casually lie under oath about he statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to to avoid offending President Trump."

Whitehouse on Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell: "It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her ... How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility? Think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense."

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

“This is not an ordinary Trump relationship. Pirro and Trump have been friends for 35 years. They go way back to the 90s...Trump once called her ‘Justice Jeanine,’ suggesting she could be on the Supreme Court for him someday.” — Brian Stelter, saying Pirro's safe 🧾 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...

CNN’s Brian Stelter Predicts Trump Won’t Fire Jeanine Pirro, But Will ‘Let Her Suffer’ Instead

Rather than oust Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, President Donald Trump is more likely to "let her suffer" in the position, CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter pre...

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